Some Hidden Pearls — Page 73
courage to take up this challenge, in Arabic prose or poetry. . And this, undoubtedly, was a great. Sign, a great intellectual miracle shown at the hands of the Promised Messiah, that all eminent Ulama of the Muslim World were silenced when pitted against a claimant to a divine mission who was himself a virtual ‘ummi', for whom Arabic was a foreign language. The whole world is well aware that in knowledge of Arabic literature and ability to write or speak in this language, Hazrat Ahmad had no mentionable attainment, or position, to begin with. In point of acquired knowledge, he was, thus, like his great master, the Holy Prophet Muhammad, an ‘ummi', unlettered and untutored, with no achievement except a formal study of an elementary kind. But when Allah selected him for the service of Islam, and appointed him to a world-wide mission for the reformation of mankind, Himself becoming his Teacher, from that moment onward, this unlettered, untutored 'ummi' through 73